Fester,

What? I'm not supposed to be disappointed that ‘stupid people’ rewarded the worst government ever? I don't understand why you can't understand that, no matter what your personal beliefs and feelings are.

We do have control. About 18 million voters have control over who forms a government. They just don't exercise that control, mainly because they listen to lying politicians. And they stupidly believe that any group outside the uniparty is bad - all because they believe the lying, career politicians of that uniparty. Laziness and apathy play a part also.

If you have no control, as you say, there is no point to your existence. You are not alone in your attitude to unreliable, grossly expensive electricity. But as long as those millions like you are convinced that you have no control, you are letting bastards like Bowen and Albanese get away with murder. How do you think Russians, Chinese and, say, Iranians got into the position they are in? Because they were convinced that they had no control.

And, because you and others reckon you have no control - shrugging everything off as “democracy” - you are going to end up under a totalitarian yoke just the same as the people mentioned above. Democracy is not a natural state: it has to be fought for - something you and too many other Australians don't want to do.

Stop fooling yourself that just voting for the same sorts of hacks every three years is “democracy”. It isn't.

ttbn,

I do what I can. I voice my opinion, but I am realistic about what I might achieve, and I believe that to be insignificant compared to other factors in the developing world. Would you have me tie myself to a wind turbine of wave banners protesting the murder of koalas?

The point I would make is as much as I dislike the constant lying from the likes of Albo and co or the fact that many get sucked in by it, there is not a lot I can do about it. The same sort of thing happens the world over and prompts countless discussions of the whys and wherefores of it all. A life signifies little as Macbeth noted, but that does not mean that it cannot be meaningful or enjoyable for the person living it, like this poem for example:

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

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Dear ttbn,

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You wrote :

« What? I'm not supposed to be disappointed that ‘stupid people’ rewarded the worst government ever? »
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No, you should not be disappointed if stupid people did that, ttbn. You should only be disappointed if intelligent people did it.

Happily, they did not.

The landslide was clearly not an expression of enthusiasm for Albanese’s lacklustre politics. It was a rejection of Dutton’s Trumpian proposition.

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Just go towards the light boomers. Your world is gone and its not coming back. You had your time and used it to screw future generations. Well those generations are here now and they are calling the shots. Your backward, insular and outdated attitudes are obsolete like the rotary phone and the horse and cart and as we learned on the weekend no one under the age of 70 is going to vote for the lieberals hateful garbage ever again.

Good luck with tehan or susssssssan or the dunce from Hume. Maybe the odious wilson clown will scrape in and you can have him. LOL None will even touch Albo and most likely lose even more seats next time. Get used to it.

Banjo, what Australia, err Dutton did to the illegal migrants is of
nothing compared to what the illegal migrants are doing to Britain.
They are systematically removing Britain from the British !

“there is not a lot I can do about it”, you say Fester. If only everyone who says that could get together, they could do something about it. It's a cop-out mate.

“mikk”, another coward who can't address anyone directly, but misuses the silly ‘boomer’ to describe people he despises, doesn't know that people to whom that word is directed were not born until 1946, after ‘war babies’ like me. He and his fellow ingrates, who think the world started only after they were born, will soon enough be subjected to the scorn and disrespect they heap on the elderly now.